<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Paul Fox <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org" target="_blank">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">ajay wrote: > Hi all. > > A simple solution was found :) > > I hacked the "KP_Prior" and "KP_Next" keys, and now they are used for > making-window-smaller and restoring-original-window-size respectively :) </div>so sugar takes over those keys? aren't those keys used by activities? they're certainly useful in a terminal -- page up and page down. </blockquote><div> Hmm.. Well a simple "grepping" showed that the "Read" activity is the only activity that explicitly makes use of the "KP_Home" and "KP_End" keys; but none seemed to make use of "KP_Prior" and "KP_Next". </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> paul <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > > All thanks to > * /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev > * sugar/src/jarabe/view/keyhandler.py > > > > Just one thing I noticed when I tried to have the above keys take effect > ONLY in ebook-mode (via the "evtest --query" test), that when I ran this > again and again via the "suprocess" module, the XO-4 behaved very > erratically. However, when I made the keys take effect irrespective of the > test of ebook-mode, things worked cool. However, I will keep on looking > into the reason. > > > Thanks a ton to all :) > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Paul Fox <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > > > gonzalo wrote: > > > Write does not know what is the ebook switch state, that logic is in the > > > osk. > > > > > > Looking in the wiki and sugar code, I could not find information about > > how > > > read the switch, > > > but in ticket <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12326" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12326</a> found this: > > > > > > If you do: > > > > > > evtest --query /dev/input/event4 EV_SW SW_TABLET_MODE; echo $? > > > > > > > > > If the xo is in ebook mode returns 10, if not, returns 0. > > > > > > There are any official doc about the switches I am missing? There are a > > way > > > to catch a event when the switch is activated, using dbus or something > > > similar? > > > > if you open the device and read it, you'll get a stream of "struct > > input_event" structures (/usr/include/linux/input.h) representing > > opening and closing of the SW_TABLET_MODE switch. here's a C code > > snippet from olpc-switchd (part of powerd): > > > > void ebook_event() > > { > > struct input_event ev[1]; > > > > if (read(ebk_fd, ev, sizeof(ev)) != sizeof(ev)) > > die("bad read from ebook switch"); > > > > dbg(3, "ebk: ev sec %d usec %d type %d code %d value %d", > > ev->time.tv_sec, ev->time.tv_usec, > > ev->type, ev->code, ev->value); > > > > if (ev->type == EV_SW && ev->code == SW_TABLET_MODE) { > > if (ev->value) > > send_event("ebookclose", round_secs(ev), ebk_device); > > else > > send_event("ebookopen", round_secs(ev), ebk_device); > > } > > } > > > > > > perhaps there's an evdev to dbus gateway of some sort, but i don't know > > about it, if so. > > > > the "evtest" commandline example, above, uses an ioctl on the input > > device to determine current state. here's snippet from the evtest source: > > (full source: git://<a href="http://anongit.freedesktop.org/evtest" target="_blank">anongit.freedesktop.org/evtest</a>) > > > > static int query_device(const char *device, const struct query_mode > > *query_mode> > > { > > int fd; > > int r; > > unsigned long state[NBITS(query_mode->max)]; > > > > fd = open(device, O_RDONLY); > > if (fd < 0) { > > perror("open"); > > return EXIT_FAILURE; > > } > > memset(state, 0, sizeof(state)); > > r = ioctl(fd, query_mode->rq, state); > > close(fd); > > > > if (r == -1) { > > perror("ioctl"); > > return EXIT_FAILURE; > > } > > > > if (test_bit(keycode, state)) > > return 10; /* different from EXIT_FAILURE */ > > else > > return 0; > > } > > > > > > > > paul > > > > > > > > > > Gonzalo > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Martin Langhoff < > > <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Paul Fox <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > > > > > i believe sugar already has code to detect the two modes, since > > > > > that's how it knows whether to present the OSK or not. > > > > > > > > Yep. Ajay, I think Write shows you the way :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > m > > > > -- > > > > <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> > > > > <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- Software Architect - OLPC > > > > - ask interesting questions > > > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > > > > - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a> > > > > > > > > =--------------------- > > paul fox, <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a> > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> > > <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Ajay Garg > Dextrose Developer > Activity Central: <a href="http://activitycentral.com" target="_blank">http://activitycentral.com</a> =--------------------- paul fox, <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Regards, Ajay Garg Dextrose Developer Activity Central: <a href="http://activitycentral.com/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://activitycentral.com</a>